Syntheses of Lipophilic Polyelectrolytes and their Applications for Functional Materials

在这项研究中，我们证明了亲脂性聚电解质在非极性有机溶剂中，由于它们之间的静电排斥作用，它们的聚合物链在亲脂性基团包围的大体积离子对中扩展很大。这一结果使我们能够开发出适用于各种有机溶剂的高吸水性聚合物，并为热敏高分子材料的合理分子设计提供了依据。此外，我们成功地制备了具有低温活性的高吸水性聚合物，并在非极性有机溶剂中构建了多层薄膜。

In this research, we demonstrated that the Lipophilic polyelectrolytes with bulky and large ion pairs surrounded by lipophilic groups expand their polymer chains largely in non-polar organic solvents due to electrostatic repulsion among them. This result enabled us to develop super-absorbent polymers for various organic solvents and provided rational molecular design of thermally-sensitive polymer materials. Moreover, we successfully prepared super-absorbent polymers active at low temperature and constructed Layer-by-Layer multilayer thin films in the non-polar organic solvents other than water.